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Whether it's having Disney character Elsa carve out snowflakes in the lands of "Frozen" or creating bridges to cross over lava in the game Minecraft, several students at Island View Elementary School have been spending the last month or so learning to teach computers to do what they want them to do. Kids Who Code is a new program this year being implemented by AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer with the Anacortes School District Melissa Davis.
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PCMag
Artificial intelligence is now quite adept at crunching vast amounts of data and using it to draw conclusions. As a result, humans who rely solely on procedural thinking aren't as valuable as they once were. What we need now are abstract thinkers who are deeply immersed in the Big Ideas made possible through computation. But traditionally, that's not how universities have sought out, categorized, or educated computer science students.
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NJ.com
During National Computer Science Week from Dec. 4 to Dec. 10, students at Hoboken Charter School who are in the "Girls Who Code" club watched a video about how to use a code kit for kids. The middle school girls taught the elementary students how to put together a circuit and code it to create a holiday-themed hot potato game.
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Cue is Wonder Workshop's most sophisticated robot to date. With enhanced sensors, faster processors, and an all new app that enables young coders to transition from block-based coding to text-based Javascript programming, Cue is the perfect solution for middle school educators interested in taking coding and robotics to the next level.
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Chicago Parent
Coding is now as essential as math and science. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be more than one million unfilled tech jobs in just two short years. That means now more than ever, a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) education is crucial for preparing the next generation for success.
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Lose the boring coding platforms—bring coding to life with Vidcode. Vidcode teaches students how to code through their favorite hobby: video making. Get free resources today!
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THE Journal
It's high time for students to move beyond an hour of coding exercises and learn computational thinking. That's the message of a new report from Digital Promise that examines what's important to know and be able to do in a "computational world." Digital Promise is a nonprofit that that promotes the use of innovation in education, particularly as it uses digital technologies.
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EdScoop
As a new year commences, many educators wonder what's on the minds of technology leaders and what they see ahead for edtech in 2018. While new classroom technologies and digital learning platforms will continue to proliferate, the education sector may also start to notice shifts within institutions on tech-related cultural issues, sources in the field say.
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District Administation Magazine
The digital divide still exists, but has shown signs of narrowing over the past six years, according to a recent study of media use by students under 8 years old by Common Sense Media. Although students in higher-income families still have an overall advantage in access to a home computer and high-speed internet, their counterparts in lower-income families have essentially cut the gap in half in both categories.
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eSchool News
Year after year, educators and those invested in education love to speculate about what will take off in the near future. And as far as riveting news goes, nothing quite peaks the interest like new trends that have the potential to fundamentally change learning. In almost all of the commentary from both educators and industry, the mention of AR and VR for 2018’s big trends were ubiquitous. So much so, we could only include just a few AR/VR pieces here in our inaugural "eSchool Media's Annual Trends Report," which compiles some of the most practical, forward-looking predictions from educators and industry on what will trend for the upcoming year in both K-12 and higher education.
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